Jean-Eric Paquet

Selakovic: Higher level of cooperation with Brussels

BRUSSELS - The ministry will step up the cooperation with relevant EU services so as to speed up preparations for opening negotiation chapters, Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Thursday during his visit to Brussels.

"We will strengthen the cooperation and upgrade it," Selakovic said after meeting EU Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova.

Action plan step toward more efficient public administration

BELGRADE - The Action Plan for putting in place the Strategy for Serbia's public administration reform will make it possible to evaluate results more easily so as to enable the country to have a more efficient public administration, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Kori Udovicki said on Friday.

Support for public finance management

BELGRADE- Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic conferred on Friday with Jean-Eric Paquet of the European Commission (EC) concerning the approval of around EUR 80 million from EU pre-accession funds as support for public finance management and public administration development.

Quality of Action Plan base for EU support

BELGRADE - Owing to the quality of the Action Plan for the Public Administration Reform Strategy, Serbia has laid the basis for the EU sector budget support as of 2016, Director for Western Balkans at the Directorate-General for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Jean-Eric Paquet said in the talks with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Kori Udovicki on Friday.

"Great progress in harmonizing energy sector with EU"

"Great progress in harmonizing energy sector with EU"

BELGRADE -- Serbia has made great progress in harmonizing energy sector regulations with EU standards, Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic and EC officials have concluded.

A project aimed at ensuring a gas connection between Serbia and Bulgaria should be fully formulated by the end of August, they announced on Friday.

Serbia has made great progress in energy sector

BELGRADE - Serbia has made great progress in harmonizing regulations governing the energy sector with EU standards, and the project aimed at ensuring a gas connection between Serbia and Bulgaria should be fully formulated by the end of August, it was said during the Friday meeting between Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic and officials of the European Commission (EC).

EU IPA funds for development of Serbian economy

BELGRADE - Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbia's minister without portfolio responsible for EU integration and national IPA coordinator, talked on Friday with Jean-Eric Paquet, director at the Directorate General for Enlargement of the European Commission, who voiced readiness to support the development of small and medium sized enterprises even more strongly.

Pake, Joksimovic discuss economic reforms on road to EU

BELGRADE - Jean-Eric Paquet, director for Albania, Serbia, BiH and Kosovo at the European Commission (EC) Directorate-General for Enlargement, has said during a meeting with Serbia’s Minister without Portfolio responsible for European integration Jadranka Joksimovic that improving the economic climate and employment and strengthening competitiveness will be among the most important criteria in

EUR 197.2 million allocation to Serbia out of IPA

BELGRADE - Jadranka Joksimovic, minister without portfolio in charge of the EU integration, and Jean-Eric Paquet, director of the European Commission (EC) Directorate for Enlargement, singed on Friday the financial agreement between the Serbian government and the EC for the 2013 national program for Serbia with a total allocation of EUR 197.2 million.

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